Journal Articles
Inoue, Y., Sato, M., Swanson, S., Lock, D., Du, J., & Funk, D. (2025). Psychosocial Resources Linking Consumer Identification and Social Well-being: Integrating the Social Identity Approach with Transformative Service Research, Journal of Business Research, 195.
McLeod, J., Phillips, P., Rowe, K., Reddan, S., Raw, K., & Swanson, S. (2025). How Does Gender Diversity Impact Board Performance? Insights from Australian Sport. Sport Management Review, 28(3), 549-574.
Swanson, S. (2024). Passion for What? Key Considerations for Passion in the Sport Workplace. Journal of Applied Sport Management, 16(4), 6.
Hughes, G., Billsberry, J., Todres, M., & Swanson, S. (2024). A Typology of Design Archetypes in Professional Football Leagues: Autonomy and Openness as Key Factors Explaining Design Variance. Journal of Sport Management. 38(5), 327–339.
Inoue, Y., Yoshida, M., Swanson, S., & Medway, D. (2023). Tokyo 2020 and diversity attitudes of young residents: A latent change score analysis of effects of event identification. Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights 4 (1), 1-10.
Ambrosini, V., Billsberry, J., & Swanson, S. (2023) The Myth of The Altruistic University: Lessons From Universities’ Sponsoring of Events. Event Management, 27(8), 1151-1164
Lowry, S., Swanson, S., & Kelly, S. (2022). Exploring Irish high-performance sports coaches’ understanding and application of reflective practice. Reflective Practice, 24(2), 137-152.
Swanson, S., Todd, S., Inoue, Y., & Welty Peachey, J. (2022). Leading for multidimensional sport employee well-being: the role of servant leadership and teamwork. Sport Management Review, 25(5), 748-770.
Inoue, Y., Lock, D., Gillooly, L., Shipway, R., & Swanson, S. (2022). The organizational identification and well-being framework: Theorizing about how sport organizations contribute to crisis response and recovery. Sport Management Review, 25(1), 1-30.
Swanson, S., Billsberry, J., Kent, A., Skinner, J., & Mueller, J. (2020). Leader Prototypicality in Sport: The Implicit Leadership Theories of People Entering Sport Management. Sport Management Review, 23(4), 640-656.
Tian, C., De Silva, V., Caine, M., & Swanson, S. (2020). Use of Machine Learning to Automate the Identification of Basketball Strategies Using Whole Team Player Tracking Data. Applied Sciences, 10(1), 24.
Swanson, S., & Todd, S. (2019). Workplace Dynamics in Professional Sport: A Case Study of Identification, Political Skill, and Personal Control. Case Studies in Sport Management. 8(S1), S28-S32.
Ferkins, L., Skinner, J., & Swanson, S. (2018). Sport Leadership: A New Generation of Thinking. Journal of Sport Management. 32(2), 77-81.
Billsberry, J., Mueller, J., Skinner, J., Swanson, S., Corbett, B., & Ferkins, L. (2018). Reimagining Leadership in Sport Management: Lessons from the Social Construction of Leadership. Journal of Sport Management. 32(2), 170-182.
Swanson, S., & Kent, A. (2017). Passion and pride in professional sports: Investigating the role of workplace emotion. Sport Management Review, 20(4), 352-364.
Swanson, S., & Kent, A. (2017). Sport identification and employee pride: Key factors in sport employee psychology. International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing, 17(1-2), 32-51.
Swanson, S., & Kent, A. (2015). Fandom in the Workplace: Multi-target identification in professional team sports. Journal of Sport Management, 29(4), 461-477.
Swanson, S., & Kent, A. (2014). The complexity of leading in sport: Examining the role of domain expertise in assessing leader credibility and prototypicality. Journal of Sport Management, 28(1), 81-93.
Inoue, Y., Plehn-Dujowich, J.M., Kent, A., & Swanson, S. (2013). Roles of performance and human capital in college football coaches’ compensation. Journal of Sport Management, 27(1), 73-83.
Swanson, S., Mudambi, R., & Kent, A. (2012). The University of Texas: Conference realignment for college athletics. Ivey ID: 9B12M104. London, Canada: Ivey Publishing.
Books
Skinner J., Smith, A.C.T., & Swanson, S. (2018). Fostering Innovative Cultures in Sport. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Book Chapters
Swanson, S. (2024). Sport Leadership and Wellbeing. In Girginov, V. & Inoue, Y. (Eds.) Routledge Resources Online – Sport Studies. Routledge.
Hamer, L., Phillips, P., Robertson, J., & Swanson, S. (2024). Profiling the Official Workforce. In Webb, T., Hancock, D., Phillips, P., & Tingle., J. (Eds.), Managing and Developing Sports Officials. Routledge.
Swanson, S., Meeks, F., Burnett, C., Skinner. J., & Collison-Randall, H. (2023). Mapping SFD stakeholders–A social network analysis of stakeholder relationship networks in Africa and Europe. In Schulenkorf, N., Welty-Peachey, J., Spaaij, R., & Collison-Randall, H. (Eds.), Handbook of Sport and International Development. Elgar.
Swanson, S., & Welty Peachey (2022). An agenda for future leadership research in sport management: explorations, considerations, and challenges. In Shilbury, D. (Ed.) A Research Agenda for Sport Management. Elgar.
Mueller, J., Skinner, J., Swanson, S., Naraine, M., & Fransen, K. (2021). Investigating shared leadership in elite sport: A social network study of USA Rugby 7s. In Andersen, S.S., Hansen, P., & Houlihan, B. (Eds.), Embedded Multi-level Leadership in Elite Sport. Routledge.
Skinner, J., Usher, W., Mueller, J., & Swanson, S. (2019). Professional Sport Leagues and Tours. In E. MacIntosh, G. Bravo, & M. Li (Eds.), International Sport Management. Human Kinetics.
Book Reviews
Swanson, S. (2015). Book Review. Quadaffi’s point guard: The incredible story of a professional basketball player trapped in Libya’s civil war. Sport in Society (18)3, 392-395.
Other Publications
Swanson, S. (2021). How Sport Brings Us Together In Times of Crisis. this. magazine.
Inoue, Y. & Swanson. S. (2021). The Tokyo Olympics and Japan’s Quest for Unity in Diversity. AsiaGlobal Online.
Swanson, S. (2016). The Curious Case of Basketball in the UK. Global Sports Jobs.
Swanson, S. (2015). Bringing sporting mindsets into the workplace. HRZone.
Swanson, S. (2015). Should the emphasis be on “Sport” or “Management” in Sport Management? Global Sports Jobs.
Swanson, S. (2015). The Future of Referee Fitness. Sport Industry Group / Cutting Edge Sport.
Swanson, S. (2015). Globalisation Strategies of the NFL and NBA. Sport Industry Group / Cutting Edge Sport.
Swanson, S. (2015) Working in Professional Sports: On Being a Sports Fan and Employee at the Same Time. Global Sports Jobs.
Research Databases
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